When surfactants adsorb at liquid surfaces, they not only decrease the surface tension, they
also confer rheological properties to the surfaces. The most common rheological parameters …

A solid withdrawn from a liquid bath entrains a film. In this review, after recalling the
predictions and results for pure Newtonian liquids coated on simple solids, we analyze the …

Surfactants–molecules and particles that preferentially adsorb to fluid interfaces–play a
ubiquitous role in the fluids of industry, of nature and of life. Since most surfactants cannot be …

Emulsions, microemulsions, and foams are dispersions of two immiscible fiuids stabilized by
surface-active species. Emulsions and microemulsions are dispersions usually made with …

Many microfluidics devices, coating processes, or diphasic flows involve the motion of a
liquid meniscus on a wet wall. This motion induces a specific viscous force, that exhibits a …

Withdrawing a plate from a suspension leads to the entrainment of a coating layer of fluid
and particles on the solid surface. In this article, we study the Landau–Levich problem in the …

Antibubbles are unusual physical objects consisting of a liquid core (s) surrounded by a thin
air film/shell while in a bulk liquid. Antibubbles carry two air-liquid interfaces, ie, one with the …

Monolayers of assembled nano-objects with a controlled degree of disorder hold interest in
many optical applications, including photovoltaics, light emission, sensing, and structural …

Soft matter is a field of condensed matter physics that began to develop in France in the
1970s under the impulse of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. I had the chance to participate in this …

Dip coating consists of withdrawing a substrate from a bath to coat it with a thin liquid layer.
This process is well understood for homogeneous fluids, but heterogeneities, such as …